Federico Viticci

906 posts on MacStories since April 2009

Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about portable gaming and the handheld revolution.
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MenuBrowser Moves Your Finder in the MenuBar

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I love Apple’s Finder: since I switched from Windows to Mac OS X, Finder has slowly become my favourite app. It’s pretty obvious - I know - but I just can’t stop thinking about how things were ugly, hard and non-user-friendly when I used Explorer.

With the release of Snow Leopard the Finder has been completely re-written in Cocoa, fully supporting 64-bit. For this reason now we have live previews, more core animation goodness, more stability, more everything. But Finder is - and always will be, I believe - a “dock app”.

And here comes MenuBrowser.

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How To: Edit .nib Files in Snow Leopard

Following my previous tutorial about How To Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4, you may have wondered how I succesfully managed to edit the browser’s .nib file using Interface Builder.

With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple decided to make it more difficult for advanced users to edit .nib files: that’s part of how they built SL to have a smaller footprint. Indeed, if you try to edit Safari’ Browser.nib file, Interface Builder will say that it cannot open complied .nib files.

As always, there’s a workaround for that.

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How To: Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4 [10.6]

Ever wanted to give Safari 4 a fresh new feel? Or, have you ever wanted to use vertical tabs instead of horizontal tabs?

As MacStories readers, you should probably know how much I’m in love with Mozilla Firefox. Most of all, I absolutely love that addon called Tree Style Tabs, which allows you to display all your open tabs as a “tree” in a sidebar.

Finally, I’ve managed to get a similar result on Safari 4, under Mac OS 10.6.1 (but it should work fine on 10.6 as well). Well, it’s a sort of a workaround, but it definitely works.

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Roundup: 40+ Twitter Clients and Utilities for Mac

As you may have understood reading MacStories, I’m in love with Twitter (I’m @storiesofmac) For this reason, I’m always searching for the best client around, hoping to find “that new one” which integrates all the features I would like to see in a Twitter app: slick UI, multi-timelines support, Growl, hashtags, url shortening and so on..

To help you in finding the best Twitter client around, here’s a list of 40 Twitter clients for your Mac. To download them, simply click on the link.

Obviously, I haven’t tested all of these apps, but I’m planning to write in-depth reviews for many of them.

Enjoy! :)

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Twittelator Pro for iPhone: Power Tweeting Made Simple.

I’m totally addicted to Twitter: in a matter of a few months, it has become my social network of choice, being a great place where I daily find interesting Mac / Web-design stuff I could share with my followers. Moreover, there are tons of Photoshop cool resources around, and that’s just perfect to me.

But anyway, this is my Twitter (remember, Twitter is what you make it!), and everyone knows that tweeting is a very personal experience, so I don’t want to be an example.

On my Mac, Tweetie is my favourite client: slick interface, stable, multi-timelines support, twitter search, dead-simple. It perfectly fits to my needs.

But what on my iPhone?

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Get a Delicious Font Library with Fontcase. Review.

I love collecting fonts. Well, I love collecting well-done fonts: I spend a lot of time searching for the right one, depending of what I want to achieve in Photoshop. On the other hand, I love iTunes. Amazing from a user interface standpoint (although written in Carbon) Apple did a great job in creating an all-in-one application for muisc, movies and apps.

What if we can get a similar result..for fonts managing?

Here’s Fontcase.

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Read it Later for iPhone. Reviewed.

It’s not a secret that there’s so much interesting stuff on the web that you just can’t read it in one afternoon. Or in a whole day. Tutorials, reviews, previews, there’s a lot of pages I would like to read just as I discover them..but I can’t.

And that’s the main concept behind Read it Later: save your pages for future reading sessions keeping them easily accessible too. So, with just one  click on the “Read it Later” button, you’ll be able to check that page again whenever / wherever you’d like. Here’s my review of Read it Later Pro for iPhone.

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